Suspender-buckle



(No Model.)

S. A. BOSTWICK.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 268,778. Patented Dec. 12.1882,

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UN TED STATES SEYMOUR A. BOSTWIGK, OF

. PATENT OFFICE.

CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENDER-BUGKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,778, dated December12, 1882,

' Application filed October 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR A. Bos'rwIoK, of Chelsea, in the county ofSnfl'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Suspender-Buckles, which invention is fully set forth inthe following specification, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings.

This improvement in Suspender-buckles consists in the construction andcombination of the divers devices embodied therein, as hereinafter moreparticularly and fully set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the body of my buckle as cut from a sheet ofmetal and before it is folded. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the'lever-camby which the buckle is secured upon the webbing. Fig. 3 is a similarview of the Fig. 7.

pivotal pin of the cam. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the pivotal stirrup.Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the buckle complete, with the webbingshown by dotted lines. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal vertical section takenon line A A, Fig. 5. Fig. 7isaperspective view ot'my buckle slightlymodified. Fig.8 is alongitudinal vertical section taken on line 13 B,Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a transverse vertical section. taken on line C 0,

In said views, (1 represents the bed or body. of the buckle, which isformed with passages b and c, a tongue, (I, ears cc, and an extension,I, when made as shown in Figs. 1, 5, 6. Ears c c are turned at rightangles to the plane of bed a, as shown, and pin h, with lever-camfpivoted thereon, is secured in the perforations in ears e, as shown, theends of said cam be. ing perforated and turned at right angles to itsplane at such distance from the holes that plate l free when the webbingis being inserted, after which said lever is turned down upon and covershook d, as shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8, such turning down also causingcam fto force the downwardly-curved edge of plate 1 into the webbing andsecurely hold the same in place.

In Figsr7, 8, and 9' the respective parts are likethosepreviouslydescribed,exceptthat part lis not extended, as abovedescribed, but is of the width of parts 12, while a bar, a, is arrangedbeneath bed a, and its ears 6 receive pin h, on which cam f is pivoted,as before described, said ears being slightly interlocked in plated, asshown in Fig. 7, to hold barn in position. The webbing passes betweencam fand bed a, and when the cam is turned down, as shown in Fig. 8, itacts directly upon webbing in, while platen is forced against body a.The stirrup i is provided with an eye, j, by which to suspend it uponhook d,which enters hole'j, thereby allowing the stirrup to play freelythereon. Said stirrup is also formed with two loo'ps k Ir, the openingsk k in which are arranged oblique-to each other and to line A A, Fig. 5,whereby the short front webbings, t t, which are secured thereon, willbe thereby arranged at such divergence as will accord with the disbeingraised, as in Fig. 5, in order to leave tam-.e apart of thewaistband-buttons ot' the

